Change the way the world travels

Be part of the GetYourGuide journey and connect people with unforgettable travel experiences worldwide. Since 2009, millions of travelers have booked unique activities with us in over 12,000 cities. Our headquarters in Berlin is supported by 16 other local offices across the globe.

Ready to join a diverse community of over 850 fellow explorers dedicated to revolutionizing the travel experience industry? Check out our careers site to learn more.

Team mission

The Central Services group is a strategic unit within Growth that develops and maintains foundational platform capabilities essential to GetYourGuide's global operations and customer experience.

This group drives efficiency and consistency across the business by centralizing critical technical services in three key areas: visual content optimization, localization and communications. By consolidating these fundamental services, the group enables GetYourGuide to deliver seamless, localized, and visually engaging experiences to travelers worldwide while empowering internal teams with robust, scalable solutions.

Your team - Communications Platform - will be in charge of developing and maintaining GetYourGuide's centralized communication infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of critical customer touchpoints across multiple channels. The team owns the technical foundation for all customer communications, including email, push notifications, SMs and emerging communication channels.

Your mission:

• Work in a cross-functional mission team with highly skilled engineers
• Continuously improve our code base, systems and processes
• Design and develop efficient solutions that can continue to scale
• Help to enable your team to iterate fast and learn about our customers by designing, launching and iterating on A/B experiments and internal solutions

Your toolkit:

• 2+ years of software development experience
• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot
• Knowledge of distributed systems and asynchronous messaging
• Experience with stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration
• Ability to turn ideas into fast, reliable, and maintainable code
• Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft
• Customer-centric prioritization and data-driven decision-making
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to others

What sets you apart:

• Experience designing architecture and deployment of web applications & services
• Experience in operating at scale, CI/CD pipelines and a cloud DevOps / infrastructure mindset
• Experience developing internal SDKs and libraries, providing API documentation and developer tooling for other internal teams.
• Experience with communication platforms and services (Sendgrid, Twilio, Postmark, Braze and related services)
• Experience with GraphQL ecosystems
• Experience with SLO/SLA management and Platform Reliability
• Experience with security and scalability of asynchronous flows
• Expertise in web application development using component-based frameworks such as Node.js, Vue.js, or similar component-based Frontend frameworks and libraries
• Experience in migrating a monolithic application to a services-oriented architecture.
• Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis building, and event-based analytics
• Prior experience working in the e-commerce space
• Prior experience in start-up environments

We want your journey with us to be extraordinary

Here’s how you can expect us to commit to you and your growth.

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 40 days per year
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at jobs@getyourguide.com.

We’re an equal opportunities employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application.

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